NEW FREEDOM, Pa.--Grade 1 Classic-winning Cloud Computing was the 2024 Leading Pennsylvania sire by progeny earnings after being 2023 mid=Altantic Leading Second-crop sire by earnings.
Cloud Computing will stand at William Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pa., for the 2025 breeding season.
The 10-year-old syndicated stallion will stand his second Pennsylvania season for $3,500, payable when the foal stands and nurses, or discounted to $3,000 for two mares, or $2,500 for three or more mares.
Cloud Computing, a member of the first crop of the brilliant Maclean’s Music, made national news in the second leg of the Triple Crown when he defeated champion Classic Empire and Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming in only his fourth career start.
He came into the race after breaking his maiden first-out going six furlongs at Aqueduct in February, and remained on the New York path to the Triple Crown, finishing second in the Grade 3 Gotham in his second start less than a month after his debut, and was third in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial. I
In a career of eight starts, he retired with earnings of $1,125,200.
The bay stallion previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he entered stud in 2019.
With two crops to race, he was the Leading Second-crop sire in the kid-Atlantic by earnings,with $2,771933, 53 winners and four black-type winners, and his runners have earned more than $3.6 million lifetime.
His North American winners are led by Super Derby winner Big Data and I’m Very Busy, the latter graded stakes-placed at 2 and 3; from one crop conceived in the Southern Hemisphere while in Chile in 2019, he is represented by Mil Guineas Maria Luisa Solari F.-G1 winner Zajarova and three other stakes performers.
His daughter My Witch Asquifar was last year’s champion imported 2-year-old filly in Mexico and counts wins in the Clasico Lea B-G1 and Clasico Diamante-G1.
Cloud Computing is one of five winners out of the graded stakes-placed A.P. Indy mare Quick Temper.
His second dam, millionaire Halo America (by Waquoit), won the Grade 1 Apple Blossom and eight other stakes, and also produced the Storm Cat colt Marino Marini, a million-dollar sales yearling who became a stakes winner in Ireland and was Grade/Group 1-placed in Ireland and the U.S.
For more information, call 717-235-4854or annschultz@pinoacklane.com.
